An international aid worker returned to Olbia in recent days after a mission in Uganda and is now being monitored for the Ebola virus by the ASL Hygiene service . The man does not show any symptoms of the disease , but is being kept under observation in compliance with the surveillance provisions, regarding the containment of the virus epidemic, of the Ministry of Health.

Uganda is a country at risk, where, at the end of January, an outbreak of the "Ebola Sudan" virus disease (SVD) was declared. The aid worker carried out a mission in the African country as a technician, to supervise the construction of a hospital built by a non-governmental organization. In Uganda, he never came into contact with health workers, patients or people at risk of contagion . Upon returning to Italy, he underwent the required procedure, for which he will have to remain under monitoring by the ASL until April 20.

The activation of the health procedures has acted as a detonator for the controversy in Sassari on the Infectious Diseases department of the AOU , the only one in Sardinia equipped with high biocontainment rooms. For the regional medical directors' union Anaao Assomed, however, those rooms are not available and there is a lack of safe routes, an equipped laboratory, safety devices and dedicated personnel.

"There is no structural problem. We are committed every day to making the department work as best as possible and are ready to face any eventuality - replies the director of Infectious Diseases, Sergio Babudieri - In 2015 we impeccably managed a case of Ebola virus, the only one at a national level that did not generate infections, and we will be able to manage it in the same way today, although precisely because of national provisions, these patients must be transferred and treated at Spallanzani in Rome".

(Online Union)

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